Educated as dental technician from 1979 – 1983 in Hamburg; Examination for the grade of master, April 22nd, 1992 in Munster, NRW. Working as practical technician for one year Working in commercial laboratories in Bielefeld from 1985-1988 Self-employed since 1989 in Bielefeld; Journalist for “Quintessenz der Zahntechnik”; Advisory function, Product development, Marketing concepts, Product photography (Dental, Food, Lifestyle), Presentations; Foundation of an institution for further education in 1988; National and international lectures; External consultant in Germany, Italy, Poland, Hungary, England, Benelux, Bosnia, USA, Canada, Russia, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and South Africa Numerous publications; Inventor of FB Analyzer, Tribos V-shade, Denture Art, Carrara Paint

Dr. Schupp graduated in dentistry in 1985 from the University of Münster and continued his studies here as a postgraduate student of orthodontics under the direction of Prof. Dr. U Ehmer. Collaboration in the orthodontic private practice of Dr. DE Toll followed and since 1990, he has been in private practice as an orthodontics specialist in Cologne, Germany. In his office, over 6000 patients have been treated with aligner orthodontics. He is certified in Manual Medicine and Osteopathy for Orthodontics. Dr. Schupp is a founding member and past president of the German Board of Orthodontics and Orofacial Orthopedics, and a board member of the German Society of Aligner Orthodontics (DGAO). He is also founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Aligner Orthodontics (JAO) and an advisory board member for the periodical Manuelle Medizin. He has published various articles concerning orthodontics, function, and pain therapy. He has written the books Funktionslehre in der Kieferorthopädie and Kraniomandibuläres und Muskuloskelletales System, as well as the first edition of Aligner Orthodontics, published in 2016 (Quintessence Publishing) and translated in several languages. Dr. Schupp is also visiting professor at the Capital University, Beijing, China.

Prof Dr Nanna Y Schürer, Dermatologist and international lecturer, Department of Dermatology, Environmental Medicine and Health Theory, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany
 

Frank Schwarz is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Oral Surgery and Implantology at the Centre for Dentistry and Oral Medicine (Carolinum), Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany. He serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Clinical Periodontology and Editorial Board Member for Periodontology 2000, Clinical Oral Implants Research and Clinical Implant Dentistry and Related Research. He is a Member of the Board of Directors of the European Association for Osseointegration – EAO, Executive Board Member of the Osteology Foundation, and Past President of the German Association of Oral Implantology (DGI). He was awarded the André Schröder Research Prize in 2007, the Miller Research Prize in 2012 and the Jan Lindhe Award in 2017.

Josef Schweiger received vocational training as a dental technician after graduating from high school. Having worked in several dental laboratories, he has been a laboratory manager at the Department of Prosthodontics of Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich since 1999. He has been responsible for the laboratory branches of several studies on all-ceramic systems and has published numerous articles on CAD/CAM and high-performance ceramics for dental use. He is a member of the board of the German Association for Computer-Assisted Dentistry (DGCZ).

Prof. Falk Schwendicke is Head of the Department of Oral Diagnostics, Digital Health and Health Services Research at Europe’s largest university hospital, the Charité in Berlin, Germany.

Prof. Schwendicke currently serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Dental Research, as President of the German Association for AI in Dentistry, as Topic Driver Dental at the ITU/WHO group AI in Health and as Vice President of the German Society for Oral Epidemiology and Health Services Research. Dr. Schwendicke holds a PhD from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and a Master of Dental Public Health (MDPH) from the University of Manchester. He received numerous awards, among them the IADR Leader Award, IADR Basil Bibby and IADR Lion Award as well as the David Sackett Award for Evidence-Based Medicine.

1977 – 1978 Studium der Chemie an der Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz 1978 – 1984 Studium der Zahnmedizin ebendort 1982 – 1983 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Physiologisch-Chemischen Institut der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität in Mainz in der Arbeitsgruppe Molekularbiologie bei Prof. Dr. E. J. Zöllner 1985 Promotion zum Dr. med. dent. über Plasmid-DNA in Bacteroides fragilis, Seit 1986 Zahnarzt in Berufsausübungsgemeinschaft in Merzig (Saarland) 1990 + 1991 Hospitation am Department of Orthodontics, University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington, Connecticut (USA) bei Prof. Dr. Ch. J. Burstone), Seit 1991 Dozent für klinische Biomechanik am Akademischen Zentrum Zahnheilkunde

Klinische Schwerpunkte

+ Implementierung orthodontischer Mechanotherapie in die Patientenbehandlung

+ Versuch der Umsetzung einer synoptischen Zahnheilkunde

Wissenschaftliche Schwerpunkte

+ Entwicklung und Evaluierung kräftesystemgetriebener orthodontischer  Apparaturen

+ Didaktik der angewandten orthodontischen Biomechanik

+ Überlebensrate minimalinvasiver Implantate

Dr Scolavino graduated with honors from the Federico II University of Naples, and has been an adjunct professor in Conservative Dentistry at the University of Milan for the academic year 2019–2020. He is an active member of AIC. He works as a private practitioner in Nola (Naples) and is the author and co-author of scientific publications in national and international journals. He is the founder of the WeRestore.it (www.werestore.it) project and author of the book "Posterior Direct Restorations". He is a Lecturer on the Master in Esthetics and Restorative Dentistry at the University of Bologna and a lecturer on the postgraduate Master in Restorative Dentistry and Aesthetic at the University of Turin. He is a visiting lecturer on the "Diplôme d’Odontologie Esthetique et Restauratrice", University of Montpellier, France. He regularly carries out training activities related to restorative dentistry in Italy, abroad, and on online platforms.

Anton Sculean is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Periodontology and currently the Head of the Dental Research Center (DRC) of the School of Dental Medicine, University of Bern, Switzerland. Prof. Sculean has authored more than 470 articles in peer-reviewed journals, 35 chapters in periodontal textbooks and has delivered more than 600 lectures at national and international meetings. He is Past President of the Periodontal Research Group of the IADR, of the Swiss Society of Periodontology, of the European Federation of Periodontology (EFP) and of the International Academy of Periodontology (IAP). Professor Sculean is currently listed as the top-rated expert in Periodontics in the world https://www.expertscape.com/ex/periodontics.His research interests focus on periodontal wound healing and regeneration, regenerative and plastic-esthetic periodontal surgery, use of antibiotics, antiseptics and novel approaches such as lasers and photodynamic therapy in the treatment of periodontal and peri-implant infections.

Dr. Mark Thomas Sebastian passed his state examination and doctorate at the Private University of Witten-Herdecke in 1993. His assistant time lasted until 1996 with study visits to Brazil, USA and South Africa. From 1996 he was a junior partner specializing in periodontology and implantology in the practice of Dr. Josef Schmidseder, Munich, one of the first German pioneers in esthetic dentistry. From 1996–2001 he was a scientific editor in the "European Journal of Aesthetic Dentistry". During this time he gave lectures on plastic periodontal surgery and published the book "Periodontology – State of Science, American Academy of Periodontology". In 1999 he founded his own practice in Munich with a focus on esthetic restorative dentistry, periodontology and implantology. Since 2000 he has been a scientific member of the editorial team of the journal “Quintessenz Zahnmedizin” published by Quintessence Publishing, Berlin. He is one of the founding members of the first European “Seattle study club SSC” in Tegernsee, 2008. The German Society for Esthetic Dentistry DGÄZ named him in 2014 as a “Specialist in Esthetic Dentistry and Function”. He completed the master's degree in the function of the chewing organ with Professor Slavicek, Vienna, in 2015. Since then, he has lectured for orthopedic surgeons on the connection between dentistry, orthopedics and bruxism. Since 2016 he has been a member of the "Invisalign Academic Aesthetic Advisory Board". Since then he has held international lectures and courses on splint orthodontics, esthetic dentistry and function.